GoKawiilHashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto has decided GitHub is so unstable it is “no longer a place for serious work,” and will therefore move his current project elsewhere.
Hashimoto’s current labour of love is Ghostty, a terminal emulator that The Register has praised for its speed and for adding “some interesting new wrinkles” to a very mature category of software.
I want to ship software and it doesn't want me to ship software
Like many developers, Hashimoto used GitHub to work on the project, and in a Tuesday post declared himself a fan.
“I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008,” he wrote, and since then has used it almost every day.
“GitHub is the place that has made me the most happy,” he revealed, and “always made time for it” – even during his honeymoon because the service is “where I've historically been happiest and wanted to be.”
“Some people doom scroll social media. I've been doom scrolling GitHub issues since before that was a word,” he admitted. “On vacations I'd have bookmarks of different projects on GitHub I wanted to study. Not just source code, but OSS processes, how other maintainers react to difficult situations. Etc. Believe it or not, I like this.”
He’s liking GitHub a lot less these days.
“I've been angry about it. I've hurt people's feelings. I've been lashing out. Because GitHub is failing me, every single day, and it is personal. It is irrationally personal,” he wrote.
The reason for his ire is the service has become unreliable.
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